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China's robotic Chang'e 6 mission returned to Earth on June 25 with an eagerly awaited stash of rocks from the Moon's farside--a historic first, and the latest achievement for the [...]

Even since Galileo first turned his telescope on the Moon in 1609 with holes. To the astronomers of the day, this was an astonishing revelation. Most believed that the Moon [...]

Early results from Clementine's battery of sophisticated instruments reveal a new and exciting Moon. Eighteen years after their last mission dedicated to studying the Moon, space scientists returned to our [...]

There's a section of the Moon I'd like you to explore with your telescopes. It's a little island of 'ghost' craters (shallow rings visible only under low lighting) and chaotic [...]

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been studying the Moon since late June 2009 with six different instruments. New results from two of them--the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and [...]

The Moon's north polar region changes appearance throughout the lunar month. In scenes reminiscent of seasonal changes near Earth's poles, the lunar north transforms from highly reflective to cratered shadows [...]

The half-lit First Quarter Moon is a detail-packed world of dramatic contrasts. Take a look the evening of March 22 or 23, and you'll find a grand mountain range straddling [...]

Aries the Ram certainly never stepped on the Moon, but it's fun to imagine that it left a large hoofprint on the lunar surface. By the evening of October 6, [...]

What a sight the Moon must have been a few billion years ago, when lava surged from the lunar interior and spread across its huge basins. As the surface cooled [...]

The European Space Agency's SMART-1 satellite imaged lunar features that will help scientists reconstruct the geologic history of the Moon's giant basins. Favorable lighting from the Sun and SMART-1's low [...]

Scientists studying a lunar caldera named Ina say it has vented gas in the last 10 million years--and may be doing so today. Brown University's Peter Schultz led the team. [...]

On January 15, an intense solar flare blasted X rays across the solar system as scientists calibrated instruments on the European Space Agency's SMART-1 lunar orbiter. When the blast hit [...]

The history of lunar volcanism is more complex than the big, dark puddles of frozen lava that can be seen with the naked eye. We fellow inhabitants of planet Earth [...]

A Space Weather article published online April 3 describes how scientists used the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's CRaTER instrument's data to simulate the effects of radiation at the Moon's surface on [...]

NASA announced March 22 that its twin GRAIL lunar orbiters had returned more than 60 images of the Moon's surface; the locations were originally suggested by the same fourth-grade class [...]

Occasionally, the Sun emits a huge gust of hot plasma called a coronal mass ejection (CME). A CME can strip 100 to 200 tons of material from the Moon's surface [...]

Read the story of the Moon's violent past in this spectular impact basin. Roughly 3.85 billion years ago, a huge chunk of solar system debris had its sights set on [...]

Most of the Moon's past is on display in the region around Copernicus. The Moon wears its history on its face. Impacts, lava floods, and gassy eruptions have left their [...]

Explore two prominent craters and a lunar cliff from your backyard. First Quarter is a splendid time for lunar observing. The lunar terminator, the boundary where night meets day, crawls [...]

Use your telescope to take a walk around one of the finest ring basins on the Moon. About five days after New Moon, a giant lunar ruin comes into view. [...]

It certainly helps if you are an ancient Greek, or a famous, dead, male astronomer. The 'man in the moon' of my childhood, that splotchy pattern of dark-lava flows and [...]